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Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC), the task of identifying the emotion label for each utterance in a conversation, is vital for developing empathetic machines. Current MLLM-based MERC studies focus mainly on capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Liu

Incorporating multi-modal contexts in conversation is important for developing more engaging dialogue systems. In this work, we explore this direction by introducing MMChat: a large-scale Chinese multi-modal dialogue corpus (32.4M raw…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yinhe Zheng , Guanyi Chen , Xin Liu , Jian Sun

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Compared to single-turn dialogue, multi-turn dialogue involving multiple images better aligns with the needs of real-world human-AI interactions. Additionally, as training data, it provides richer contextual reasoning information, thereby…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dawei Yan , Yang Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Peng Wang , Haokui Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Conversational assistants are increasingly popular across diverse real-world applications, highlighting the need for advanced multimodal speech modeling. Speech, as a natural mode of communication, encodes rich user-specific characteristics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Maximillian Chen , Ruoxi Sun , Sercan Ö. Arık

Next generation task-oriented dialog systems need to understand conversational contexts with their perceived surroundings, to effectively help users in the real-world multimodal environment. Existing task-oriented dialog datasets aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Satwik Kottur , Seungwhan Moon , Alborz Geramifard , Babak Damavandi

Current conversational recommendation systems focus predominantly on text. However, real-world recommendation settings are generally multimodal, causing a significant gap between existing research and practical applications. To address this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zihan Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

Emotion recognition and sentiment analysis are pivotal tasks in speech and language processing, particularly in real-world scenarios involving multi-party, conversational data. This paper presents a multimodal approach to tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Aref Farhadipour , Hossein Ranjbar , Masoumeh Chapariniya , Teodora Vukovic , Sarah Ebling , Volker Dellwo

Personalized conversation models (PCMs) generate responses according to speaker preferences. Existing personalized conversation tasks typically require models to extract speaker preferences from user descriptions or their conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Zhiliang Tian , Wei Bi , Zihan Zhang , Dongkyu Lee , Yiping Song , Nevin L. Zhang

We introduce the task of Multi-Modal Context-Aware Recognition (MCoRec) in the ninth CHiME Challenge, which addresses the cocktail-party problem of overlapping conversations in a single-room setting using audio, visual, and contextual cues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Katerina Zmolikova , Pingchuan Ma , Ngoc Quan Pham , Christian Fuegen , Alexander Waibel

Recent Multi-Party Conversation (MPC) models typically rely on graph-based approaches to capture dialogue structures. However, these methods have limitations, such as information loss during the projection of utterances into structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yoonjin Jang , Keunha Kim , Youngjoong Ko

Assessing the performance of systems to classify Multi-Party Conversations (MPC) is challenging due to the interconnection between linguistic and structural characteristics of conversations. Conventional evaluation methods often overlook…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Nicolò Penzo , Maryam Sajedinia , Bruno Lepri , Sara Tonelli , Marco Guerini

Multi-party dialogues are more difficult for models to understand than one-to-one two-party dialogues, since they involve multiple interlocutors, resulting in interweaving reply-to relations and information flows. To step over these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yiyang Li , Xinting Huang , Wei Bi , Hai Zhao

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot abilities and powerful image-understanding capabilities. However, the existing open-source multi-modal models suffer from the weak capability of multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yiming Lei , Zhizheng Yang , Zeming Liu , Haitao Leng , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Stance detection, which aims to identify public opinion towards specific targets using social media data, is an important yet challenging task. With the proliferation of diverse multimodal social media content including text, and images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fuqiang Niu , Zebang Cheng , Xianghua Fu , Xiaojiang Peng , Genan Dai , Yin Chen , Hu Huang , Bowen Zhang

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

Current dialogue research primarily studies pairwise (two-party) conversations, and does not address the everyday setting where more than two speakers converse together. In this work, we both collect and evaluate multi-party conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jimmy Wei , Kurt Shuster , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Jack Urbanek , Mojtaba Komeili

Research into the area of multiparty dialog has grown considerably over recent years. We present the Molweni dataset, a machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset with discourse structure built over multiparty dialog. Molweni's source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jiaqi Li , Ming Liu , Min-Yen Kan , Zihao Zheng , Zekun Wang , Wenqiang Lei , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Memes are widely used in online social interactions, providing vivid, intuitive, and often humorous means to express intentions and emotions. Existing dialogue datasets are predominantly limited to either manually annotated or pure-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yuheng Wang , Xianhe Tang , Pufeng Huang